Frank Kermode introduces recorded conversations with: Iris Murdoch , Graham Greene
Angus Wilson
Ivy Compton-Burnett
C. P. Snow, John Wain
Muriel Spark
... ' 'reality' (one of the few words which mean nothing without quotes) ... Vladimir Nabokov
On a book entitled' Lolita '
Professor Kermode has asked these novelists to consider the relationship between ' reality' and the world of their novels.